The problem with revolutionary millenarianism is that its failure to achieve utopia is viewed as disaster by its proponents.

Personally, I think the population of Venezuela are possibly less concerned about the lack of utopia than they are about the lack of food, medicine and even toilet paper. But then Craig has pretty much always been one of the nomenklatura. They seem to survive regardless.

I would note that I agree with him entirely that Venezuela is more of a functioning democracy that Saudi Arabia, which is a non-constitutional monarchy and makes no claims to democracy, functional or otherwise. Yet, broadly, manages to feed its people. And on the few occasions I have visited, didn't seem to have a grotesque toilet paper shortage.

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A classical liberal & modern libertarian, economically laissez faire, and a governmental minimalist. Somewhat surprised to find this puts me way to the right of Chingis Khan.
Really, really pissed off at the endemic stupidity of the British governing cliques. Sometimes lets his potty mouth get the better of him.